10.) Advanced sirens

No more loud sirens (although they can still be utilized as shown in the clip) only a "boom" of sorts, as it comes closer (akin to a minor earthquake). That way, it doesn't wake anyone up, or frighten the elderly. It also helps distracted drivers pay attention to emergency personnel on route.

4.) Automatic license readers

The debate over how this may or may not violate civil rights boils down to the same discussion: at what boundary do we define public vs. private? As it stands, if you walk out of your house, onto public property, public streets, public places, and if there's a reasonable expectation that someone can SEE you, there's no difference between been seen and being recorded that you were in that public place or view. ALPR are an extension of that train of thought. I honestly don't see that changing any time soon.

What's being advanced with this technology is the pooling of individual city resources. We have about four of our twenty cars equipped with ALPR. We also average about one stolen vehicle report each day. We recover those cars and get them back to their owners much faster with ALPR. In addition, having that data in a searchable database with GPS information means we can track suspect vehicles in a forensic, evidentiary way to show patterns of criminal behavior (think strings of residential burglaries). Now expand that database out to the region, and things start to get interesting. We contribute to the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC) and can access all their ALRP's in real time. We've solved a lot of crime through that partnership.

1.) StarChase

This is proper 2 Fast 2 Furious stuff:

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Referred to as a pursuit reduction technology, the StarChase system launches a miniature GPS tracker from a compressed-air cannon mounted on the police vehicle's grill. Once attached, an officer can end a pursuit and track the vehicle at a later time.

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